BIB_ID
373321
Accession number
MA 5141.86
Creator
Thomas, Julian.
Display Date
1920 Sept. 29.
Credit line
Bequest of Kenneth A. Lohf, 2001.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.4 cm
Notes
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and manuscripts of War Poetry related to World War I; see collection record (MA 5141) for more information.
With an manuscript Errata list for "Collected Poems / By Edward Thomas." written in an unknown hand.
With manuscript copies of five unpublished (in 1920) poems of Edward Thomas in the hand of Julian Thomas; The first lines of the poems as follows: (1) "By the ford at the town's edge; (2) "Dull thoughts, walking among the nunneries;" (3) "Some day, I think there will be people enough;" (4) "No one so much as you;" (5) Extra stanza to 'Song' in "Last Poems: "She is beautiful." "By the ford" is undated; "Dull thoughts..." is dated "30.iv.16"; "Some day..." is dated 1916 with the note "Sent to H.T. from Codford;" "No one so much as you" is dated "Written going home on sick leave 11.ii.16;" the extra stanza to "Song" is dated "22.iv.15".
Written from "13 Rusham Rd. / S.W, 12."
With an manuscript Errata list for "Collected Poems / By Edward Thomas." written in an unknown hand.
With manuscript copies of five unpublished (in 1920) poems of Edward Thomas in the hand of Julian Thomas; The first lines of the poems as follows: (1) "By the ford at the town's edge; (2) "Dull thoughts, walking among the nunneries;" (3) "Some day, I think there will be people enough;" (4) "No one so much as you;" (5) Extra stanza to 'Song' in "Last Poems: "She is beautiful." "By the ford" is undated; "Dull thoughts..." is dated "30.iv.16"; "Some day..." is dated 1916 with the note "Sent to H.T. from Codford;" "No one so much as you" is dated "Written going home on sick leave 11.ii.16;" the extra stanza to "Song" is dated "22.iv.15".
Written from "13 Rusham Rd. / S.W, 12."
Provenance
Kenneth A. Lohf.
Summary
Sending him a copy of "Edward's Collected Poems : I am sure he would have sent you a copy, and also shown you the pieces mysteriously left-over (presumably for dramatic effect at a later date ... 'unpublished poems by Edward Thomas') which I have copied out with a feeling of having committed a secret sin & being a sort of ghoul. However, they are interesting. 'By the ford' is typically humorous. 'Some day I think' is very beautiful. But I am afraid they must be suppressed, until Helen releases them. I am finding your book most entertaining & am very glad indeed to possess it : many thanks."
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